I’ve blogged before about the fish in the old harbour at Puerto del Carmen.  Having just found out that the harbour is being redeveloped and thus it is not possible to feed the fish at present, I remembered that I made a short film of the fish jumping for the bread being thrown to them last year.

Here it is:

After blogging about the stingray in Puerto del Carmen harbour yesterday, I decided to take a look on YouTube to see if I could find a video of one jumping as had been reported.

I did! And here it is:

But even more interesting was that I actually found a video of a stringray in the harbour at Puerto del Carmen! Being so shallow, the video is well lit:

In fact, I found that video amazing to watch as it is just so calm and the stingray doesn’t appear to be bother by the diver swimming along behind it.

This video from YouTube shows the harbour in Puerto del Carmen. To the left, the boats that take tourists and divers out in the daytime moor for the night. On the right-hand side are the restaurants with there tables overlooking the water.

At about this point there are lots of little fish in the water, waiting for visitors to through them scraps of bread to eat. They often fight over the bread and can cause quite a splash. Every now and again a stingray comes into the harbour to feast on the fish.